Mon, 4 December 2006
Intro In this session we'll take a
look at a few of the common social media applications including mySpace,
Facebook and Flickr. We'll also look at some applications that are designed
specifically for academic use. Source: Belgian Master
course in Communication & Multimedia Design: http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2006-April/009573.html Eons: http://eons.com Dodgeball: http://www.dodgeball.com/
Mobile
location-based service that functions using �devices formally known as cell
phones� and text messaging. See website for demo. Are there any specific academic applications? CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/
Is there a good comprehensive list of social media application
links? Sure � Wikipedia maintains a great list that
is linked up in the shownotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites How about academic applications? Blackboard/WebCT (www.blackboard.com) � RSS not available yet Moodle (www.moodle.org) has a basic blogging tool. It has
the capacity to add tags and create RSS feeds for the other people in your
course/class. �
Moodle is an �open
source� application�� Other
Course Management Systems [samples from www.wikipedia.org]
ANGEL Learning (commercial) Brihaspati (Open source,
commercial version also) eCollege (commercial) Desire2Learn (commercial) Dokeos (open source) Edumate (commercial) LON-CAPA (open source) .LRN (open source) Sakai Project (open source) Scholar360 (commercial) WebCT (commercial, owned by Blackboard Inc.) Vuepoint (commercial) |